Cigarette package



Jan. 10, 1933. MAK|E 1,894,221

CIGARETTE PACKAGE Filed Aug. 8, 1930 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 10, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CHARLES H. MAGKIE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO AUGUSTUS L. MEROLLE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CIGARETTE PACKAGE Application filed August 8, 1930. Serial No. 473,906.

This invention relates to a cigarette package, and an object of the invention is to provide an attractive form of package in which cigarettes may be packed and marketed and which will include simple, practical and efficient means by which the cigarettes may be easily and quickly discharged one by one from the package.

A more specific obj ectis to provide a package having a cigarette discharging device built thereinto adapted for discharging the cigarettes one at a time as the result of asimple manual manipulation of a part of the package.

A further specific object is to provide a package having a rotary trap door formed as a part of one of the walls of the package manually rotatable into and out of a position discharging a cigarette from within the package.

A further specific object is to provide means normally holding said trap door closed.

Other objects and aims of the invention,

, more or less specific than those referred to above. will be in part obvious and in part pointed out in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts and applications of principles constituting the invent1on; and the scope of protection contemplated will be indicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing which is to be taken as a part of this specification, and

in which I have shown merely a preferred form of embodiment of the invention Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a cigarette package constructed in accordance with this invention, a portion being broken away to illustrate a portion of the trap door operating device. 0

Fig. 2 is a similar perspective view of the package but taken from a different angle and showing the rear side of the package.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view substantially upon the plane of line IIIIII of Fig. 1 and showing the trap door closed.

Fig. 4c is a sectional view similar to Fig. 3 but illustrating the parts as they appear when the trap door is open.

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Fig. 5 is a front elevational view of a package similar to that illustrated in the previous figures but showing a modified form of de Vice for operating the trap door, and

Fig. 6' is a transverse sectional view si-inilar to Fig. 3 but showing the structure appearing in Fig. 5.

Referring to the drawing for describing in detail the structure as illustrated therein, it will be seen that the package is of ordinary rectangular contour of the general proportions as common to ordinary cigarette packages adapted for containing a dozen or more of cigarettes. The package is formed of paper or cardboard of appropriate thickness and consists of top and bottom walls 1 and 2, opposite end walls 3 and 4 and front and rear walls 5 and 6. The paper or cardboard from which these walls are formed may be cut, folded, and gummed together in any appropriate manner, and it will be understood that a separate covering or wrapper of paper, as indicated at 7,. either transparent or otherwise, may be placed about the walls to more effectually seal the contents if desired.

In the front wall as 5 there is formed an opening 8 of suitable size to permit lateral discharge of cigarettes from within the package. Within this opening is a semi-cylindrical trap door 9 pivoted at its opposite ends as at 10 and 11 upon the end walls 3 and 4 so as to be freely oscillatable between open and closed positions. This trap door is of an appropriate size to receive and support within its concaved side one of the cigarettes as 11, approximately as indicated, and is adapted, when swung from its closed to its open position, to move around behind the supported cigarette and to" thereby'expose that particular cirgarette exteriorly of the package so that said cigarette will drop out free of the package.

Any suitable means may be provided for oscillatingthe trap door. For this purpose the drawing Figs. 1 to 4, suggests the use of a pull-thread as L connected with the door 7 and extending therefrom into connection as at 12 with the lower edge of a finger flap G pivotally mounted as a part ofthe rear wall 6 of the package. A resilient tension member,

such instance as a small strip ofrubber as H indicated, is connected with the door by'one end with a wall, as 3, of the package v at its opposite end for urging the door always to closed position. 7 a p a 7 When a'cigarette is to Lie removed fromi a package the operator simply bends the flap G outwardly with his finger from the posi V tion'Fag; '3 to the position F 1g". l, thereupon v 1 swinging the door contrary tothe pull of the member H and thus discharging the cigarette. I

It is noted that the tension member extends onthe door adapted to beeiigaged by thepad' oiian operatcr s finger for swinging the door either open or closed as desired. In this sti'uctu'rethc frictionelement 13 is adapted to rub the upper surface of the bot,- tom wall of the package, as at 14 for there 1 by furnishing the. desired frictional engagenient between the' dooran d therest of the packagetomaintaiii the door in any position i to which it IS moved.

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; As manychange's'could be made in this construction without dc; arting from the scope of the invention as (ififillGCldllytllQ folow nglfc 1 iis, 1t is intended that all matter containethin the above description, or shown 7 injthe accompanyingdrawing, shall be inte w I preted as llustrative only and not n a llllllt V ng sense, a

I a a H H' ving thusdescribed my invention, what I claim as'newland'desireto secure by Letr .ters'Pateiit iS k- "1.A cigarette packagecomprising' confin-,

ing top bottom' side and end walls adapted to contain asupplyofcigarettes, one of said we ls haying an'opening therethrough of a size to f permitlateral discharge of aicigarette therer p i through a trap doorpositioned within said '1 'openmgconcaved-on its innerside adapted to fioreceivea cigarette therein, means by which V saidtrap dooris pivotally mounted to swing a for, disposing said cigarette enteriorly of theqpackage, and operatingmeans forsaid V V H trapfdoor including a finger flap pivotally 00 mounted upon aLwa'll of the packageremote r from the door and a flexible thread operative-f Jly' connecting saidQfiap with said door sothat 7 door the cigarettesniay 'be dischargedfro n the interior of the'pack I 2. A cigarette package compirsing confin ing top bottom side and end walls adapted to contain a supply of cigarettes, one of said walls having an opening therethrough ofa size to permit lateral discharge of a cigarette therethrough, a trap door positioned within said opening concaved on its inner side adapt ed to receive a cigarette therein, means which said trap door is pivotally mounted to," swing for disposing said cigarette exteriorl'y of the package, resilient means urging the trap door to closed'position, a'movable finger piece arranged at an op osite wall of said package, andi connections door and said finger piece operable toswing the trap door by movement of the finger piece.

A cigarettepa ckage comprising confinetween the trap a ing top bot-tom'side and endwalls adapted to containasupply ofcigarettes, one of said f walls having an opening therethrough of a size topermitlateral discharge of a cigarette therethrough, a trap door positioned within said opening concaved oniits'inner-side adapted to receive a cigarette therein, means by which said trap door is pivotally mounted to swingfordisp osing said cigaretteexteriorof the package,resilientmeans extending about the trap door in'one direction and en-' gaging antadjacent wall of the package operable toswing the trapdoor towardclo sed position, a movable finger piece arranged at another wall of the package, and a flexible thread extending about the trap door in an opposite direction and engaging saidifinge'r piece to swing thetrap door against the tensionot said resilient ineans'by movement of said movable finger piece; n V

.14. A cigarette package comprising confin ing top'bcttom side and end walls adapted to a contain a supply of; cigarettes, one of said wallsrihaving an opening therethrou h of a sizeto permit lateral dischargeof a cigarette therethrough, ,meansarranged at said opening operable-to discharge a cigarette through said opening, and an operating device for said discharge means including an actuating me'm-' y oppositeside wall ber arrangedat a relative of the package and connections extending therefrom across the package to'the discharge means In testimony whereof I a'flix my signature;

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